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This document provides instructions for using a nasogastric (NG) feeding tube at home with your baby. It includes the steps to follow, supplies you will need, helpful visual aids, and common questions and concerns. It is very important to follow the instructions carefully to safely feed your baby. This handout also provides a link and QR code to video instructions. 

This handout is a checklist of things to make sure the home is a safe and helpful place for patients recovering from total hip or knee joint replacement surgery.

This handout is a chapter from the Spine Care Companion, and provides information about how physical therapy can help with spinal pain.

This handout is a chapter in the Spine Care Companion, and reviews how to safely bend and lift objects after spinal procedures.

This handout tells how to find Labor & Delivery on the 6th floor of University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake campus. It includes maps of the main floor of the hospital and an area map showing the Triangle Parking Garage.

This brochure explains how to give yourself a subcutaneous injection. This is a shot that is given into the fatty tissue just under the skin. Illustrations and step-by-step instructions are included. (This information is also available in full-page format through UWMC Patient and Family Education Services.)

This handout explains how to prepare for a heart catheterization procedure for patients at University of Washington Medical Center - Northwest Campus. Planned procedures include a left heart catheterization and angiogram, and a left and right heart catheterization and angiogram.

This handout explains how to prepare for a diagnostic test that uses radionuclide imaging at the Heart Institute at UWMC. It gives specific instructions for the day before and the day of the test, what medicines you may need to hold, and what to do if you have diabetes and usually take diabetes medicines.

This handout gives instructions on using MoviPrep, Neomycin, and Metronidazole when preparing for surgery. These medicines help clean your bowel.

This handout is for patients who are at risk for falling after they leave the hospital. It gives tips for staying safe when standing up after lying down, moving and walking, taking medicine, going to the bathroom, and more.

This handout is included in the "Congenital Heart Conditions" notebook. Helpful for all UWMC patients, it tells how to read prescription labels and what to do when a refill is needed, whether using the UWMC pharmacy or an outside pharmacy. An illustration of a prescription label is included, with call-outs explaining the information shown.

This handout explains bladder retraining, which increases the size of the bladder and allows the patient to urinate less often. Basic steps in the process are described: avoiding foods that irritate the bladder irritants, drinking more water, and trying to wait 5 minutes before going to the bathroom when first getting the urge to urinate.

This handout describes how to go up and down stairs safely using a crutch or cane. This handout is designed for patients recovering from total hip or knee joint replacement surgery.

This handout explains what human milk fortifiers (HMFs) are and how they help premature or sick babies grow. It describes how HMFs are added to pumped human milk to give extra nutrients babies may have missed by being born early. You’ll also learn how HMFs are safely used in hospitals, what to know about recent news stories, and how they can be part of a feeding plan that supports breastfeeding.

This handout is a quick guide for patients who have had weight loss surgery at University of Washington Medical Center. It explains how and when to drink liquids, which liquids to drink, and which ones to avoid.